jQuery cookie script is only setting the cookie for a day...

jQuery cookie script is only setting the cookie for a day...

Hi everyone, I am using a jQuery cookie script to set the cookie of some elements on my website. One of the problems is that I need the cookie to not expire after one day, I need it to expire after a while (I'm going to start off with a year). Here's my script, the red part is what I've been editing.
  1. * Create a cookie with the given name and value and other optional parameters.
  2. /**
  3. * Cookie plugin
  4. *
  5. * Copyright (c) 2006 Klaus Hartl (stilbuero.de)
  6. * Dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses:
  7. * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
  8. * http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
  9. *
  10. */

  12. /**
  13. *
  14. * @example $.cookie('the_cookie', 'the_value');
  15. * @desc Set the value of a cookie.
  16. * @example $.cookie('the_cookie', 'the_value', { expires: 7, path: '/', domain: 'jquery.com', secure: true });
  17. * @desc Create a cookie with all available options.
  18. * @example $.cookie('the_cookie', 'the_value');
  19. * @desc Create a session cookie.
  20. * @example $.cookie('the_cookie', null);
  21. * @desc Delete a cookie by passing null as value. Keep in mind that you have to use the same path and domain
  22. * used when the cookie was set.
  23. *
  24. * @param String name The name of the cookie.
  25. * @param String value The value of the cookie.
  26. * @param Object options An object literal containing key/value pairs to provide optional cookie attributes.
  27. * @option Number|Date expires Either an integer specifying the expiration date from now on in days or a Date object.
  28. * If a negative value is specified (e.g. a date in the past), the cookie will be deleted.
  29. * If set to null or omitted, the cookie will be a session cookie and will not be retained
  30. * when the the browser exits.
  31. * @option String path The value of the path atribute of the cookie (default: path of page that created the cookie).
  32. * @option String domain The value of the domain attribute of the cookie (default: domain of page that created the cookie).
  33. * @option Boolean secure If true, the secure attribute of the cookie will be set and the cookie transmission will
  34. * require a secure protocol (like HTTPS).
  35. * @type undefined
  36. *
  37. * @name $.cookie
  38. * @cat Plugins/Cookie
  39. * @author Klaus Hartl/klaus.hartl@stilbuero.de
  40. */

  42. /**
  43. * Get the value of a cookie with the given name.
  44. *
  45. * @example $.cookie('the_cookie');
  46. * @desc Get the value of a cookie.
  47. *
  48. * @param String name The name of the cookie.
  49. * @return The value of the cookie.
  50. * @type String
  51. *
  52. * @name $.cookie
  53. * @cat Plugins/Cookie
  54. * @author Klaus Hartl/klaus.hartl@stilbuero.de
  55. */
  56. jQuery.cookie = function(name, value, options) {
  57. if (typeof value != 'undefined') { // name and value given, set cookie
  58. options = options || {};
  59. if (value === null) {
  60. value = '';
  61. options.expires = -1;
  62. }
  63. var expires = '';
  64. if (options.expires && (typeof options.expires == 'number' || options.expires.toUTCString)) {
  65. var date;
  66. if (typeof options.expires == 'number') {
  67. date = new Date();
  68.                 date.setTime(date.getTime() + (options.expires * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000 * 365));
  69. } else {
  70. date = options.expires;
  71. }
  72. expires = '; expires=' + date.toUTCString(); // use expires attribute, max-age is not supported by IE
  73. }
  74. // CAUTION: Needed to parenthesize options.path and options.domain
  75. // in the following expressions, otherwise they evaluate to undefined
  76. // in the packed version for some reason...
  77. var path = options.path ? '; path=' + (options.path) : '';
  78. var domain = options.domain ? '; domain=' + (options.domain) : '';
  79. var secure = options.secure ? '; secure' : '';
  80. document.cookie = [name, '=', encodeURIComponent(value), expires, path, domain, secure].join('');
  81. } else { // only name given, get cookie
  82. var cookieValue = null;
  83. if (document.cookie && document.cookie != '') {
  84. var cookies = document.cookie.split(';');
  85. for (var i = 0; i < cookies.length; i++) {
  86. var cookie = jQuery.trim(cookies[i]);
  87. // Does this cookie string begin with the name we want?
  88. if (cookie.substring(0, name.length + 1) == (name + '=')) {
  89. cookieValue = decodeURIComponent(cookie.substring(name.length + 1));
  90. break;
  91. }
  92. }
  93. }
  94. return cookieValue;
  95. }
  96. };